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Casanova’s women
- June 3, 2023
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- Category: Character Focus
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Apart from obscuring so much of what is interesting about him, Casanova’s historical reputation as a womaniser has, ironically, also obscured the nature of his relationship with women. The great libertine was, in fact, in some ways very atypical when it came to women. The libertine creed regarded the pursuit of sexual pleasure as a -
Eighteenth-century women painters in France
- April 8, 2023
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Although many critics applauded their new prominence, others lamented the immodesty of women who would display their skills so publicly. Indeed, pamphleteers frequently conflated the exhibition of these women’s paintings with the display of their bodies… Always very well worth exploring - the Met museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History along with the usual -
Murder by women in eighteenth-century London and Paris
- October 29, 2022
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Fascinating podcast on research into female murderers, the way society dealt with the phenomenon, how women were punished compared to men, how women despatched their victims and the impact of the conditions of urban life – here. ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on
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